2 Chronicles 32:6

6. The street of the gate of the city This is indefinite, but may most naturally be understood of a broad open space in front of the principal gate of the city, perhaps the northern gate, or “gate of Ephraim.” 2 Kings 14:13; Nehemiah 8:16.

Spake comfortably Encouragingly. Compare chap. 2 Chronicles 30:22, note. Hezekiah’s words of faith and encouragement, as here given, do not well accord with his submission and payment of treasure to the invader, as recorded in 2 Kings 18:14-16. But the records are by no means contradictory. Together they furnish a lesson of human weakness. The people for awhile were encouraged by Hezekiah’s words, (2 Chronicles 32:8,) but when Sennacherib had captured “all the fenced cities of Judah,” (2 Kings 18:13,) they probably became disheartened, and Hezekiah himself trembled for the safety of his capital, and was glad to hire the invader to depart.

2 Chronicles 32:9-23 are a brief summary of the events of Sennacherib’s second invasion. This is much more fully detailed in 2 Kings 18:17-19; 2 Kings 18:37, where see notes. The rest of the chapter (2 Chronicles 32:24-33) is also an abbreviation of what is more fully recorded in 2 Kings 20:0.